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Kaunda on Violence

This book delves into the perspectives of Kenneth Kaunda on the nature and consequences of violence, offering insights into his views on conflict resolution and peacebuilding. more

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Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda

Kenneth Kaunda is a prominent Zambian politician and educator. Born on April 28, 1924, he served as the first President of Zambia. Kaunda played a crucial role in the Zambian independence movement and led the country to independence from British colonial rule in 1964. As an educator, he dedicated himself to the cause of education and continued to push for educational reforms during his political career. more

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“Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.”

“Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.”

“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”